[freenet-dev] BDB uses far more memory than it's supposed to; ideas?

[Matthew Toseland]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:50:53AM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:44 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > that would be a grand total of 64MB.
> > Which IMHO is very reasonable.
> 
> As noted, that's pretty massive.  I don't think it's reasonable at all.
> Here's some stats for comparable daemons that I quickly plucked out of a
> "ps axu" on the box I'm running fred:
> 
> named	    3.17 MB
> imapd	    2.85 MB
> mysqld	   17.33 MB
> apache2	    7.82 MB
> postgres    6.47 MB
> fred	  120.82 MB

Squid can use tons. So can a well-configured high load apache.
> 
> Now, to me, fred is seeming a little out of place there.  Even if it was
> 64MB, that's still three times the size of mysql's footprint.

So what? The typical low end new PC has 512MB of RAM.
> 
> What, exactly, requires all this memory?
> 
> Bob
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